How many of these apply to you? You know you are old school: 1. You remember when there was only 2 Ranger Bn. 2. You have passed out at Rick’s on Hay St. 3. You dated a dancer from Rick’s 4. Still refer to the NATO countries Hungry, Poland, etc as Warsaw Pact 5. Have at least one pair of jungles and khakis in the closet 6. Have been issued “chocolate chip DCUs at Green Ramp 7. Qualified with the 45. M16A1 & M60 MG 8. Fast Roping was classified means of insertion 9. Cringed when someone referred to the 82nd as the “Jumping Junkies” 10. Had a Jungle Expert or Recondo School patch 11. Remember replacing your baseball cap for the maroon beret 12. Airborne School was still kind of hard 13. There was no SF tab or HALO wings. 14. Not everybody had to be” Special Operations” 15. You have STABOed (before everybody went to SPIES) 16. The seats were removed from Blackhawks so you could cram 20 Joes in it for air assault ops. 17. Had a MC-1B drivers license 18. 7th & 5th SFG was in ‘Old Divison”, then 3rd SFG lived there. 19. You were levied to 7th ID to cadre the Light Fighters. 20. Ranger School had a Desert Phase with live fires 21. There were SF babies, never mind they brought that back 22. Used a PRC-77 radio 23. Your entire chain of command from Squad Leader on up had tours in Vietnam 24. You could have a beer at lunch 25. Bronze Bruce was the 5 mile turn around point 26. You believe a “Single Point Release” is a piece of crap and still have your H-Harness. 27. Still look good in your UDT swim trunks 28. The “Purd” was in your chain of command 29. Have done a jump exchange with the PDF or Canadian Airborne Regiment 30. Maj Howard smoked you bags on a ruck run out at Mackall 31. The reception for your Wedding was at the Flaming Mug. Then your wife was back to work at Rick’s the following night. 32. Didn’t have Gortex, Refused to ever wear a field jacket just wore a “smoking jacket underneath your top. 33. You have laid awake at night dreaming of doing parachute assault on Havana, Managua, Tripoli or Tehran 34. Your Plt. Daddy ensured that you wore”highly shined” jump boots on a weekly basis when in garrison. Cause “that’s the way his Plt. Sgt. did it back in the day.” 35. You have seen an ugly, pregnant, chick in her tennis shoes and maternity BDU’s wearing a Green Beret 36. You have done many airmobile ops in a “Huey” 37. You fondly remember writing your name/unit in the “tar shacks” in Mountain Phase 38. You know where the “John Wayne Memorial Shitter” is. 39. Have seen a “candy striper” from Group 40. Have wore BDU’s with your foreign jump wings sewn on. 41. Remember when there was only one “Selection” course in the Army 42. If you were a sniper and you had a M21 43. When Sicily DZ was labeled North & South 44. When Fun Jumps consisted showing up on Friday night, drinking beer and doing helo blasts all day on Saturday. 45. When women ran separate formation in Jump School. 46. When cherries were held upside down in a mountain sleeping bag outside third floor window by the E-4 mafia. 47. Have been fed by the student pilots in Florida Phase. 48. When the 82nd had kevlars and the Rangers had steel pots. 49. You had P-38 on your dogtags 50. When the name of 2 man detail you were on was “Hey Cherrie you & the new guy!”
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 03:59:45 +0000
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